Totara Learn 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Totara Learn

4.4

(51)

Pricing

Starting at $4,250.00 per year

About Totara Learn

Totara Learn is an enterprise learning management system (LMS) powered by open source technology and trusted by the USDA, Western Union, Sony, Pepsico, Save The Children and more.

Being open-source, Totara Learn specializes in helping large government agencies and enterprises adapt and scale their training.

Not only does Totara Learn’s adaptable nature allow for a bespoke platform, but it also blends with and amplifies an organization’s culture, technological environment and adapts to unique functional requirements.

Through a vetted global partner network, the platform offers flexible implementation options such as an on-premise solution, a platform as a service solution or a cloud-based SaaS LMS.

Totara Learn enables organizations to cater to multiple groups or customers from a single instance of the LMS, combining a streamlined admin experience with distinctly branded and isolated user environments.

The platform also offers powerful reporting, automation, blended learning, deep theming and feature-driven customization, and performance tracking features to help scale training programs and prove compliance.

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Totara Learn Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $4,250.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$4,250.00

flat rate, per year

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Totara Learn Features

Popular features found in Learning Management System
Assessment Management
Asynchronous Learning
Blended Learning
Built-in Course Authoring
Certification & Licensing
Gamification
Learner Portal
Learning Paths/Tracks
Mobile Learning
SCORM Compliance
Synchronous Learning
Training Management
More features of Totara Learn
Academic/Education
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Assignment Management
Certificates
Certification Management
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Compliance Tracking
Content Library
Content Management
Corporate/Business
Course Authoring
Course Management
Course Tracking
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
eLearning Companies
Extended Enterprise Learning
Gradebook
Learning Management
Multi-Language
Performance Management
Progress Reports
Progress Tracking
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Self-paced Learning
Self Service Portal
Single Sign On
Social Learning
Surveys & Feedback
Talent Management
Tests/Assessments
Third-Party Integrations
User Management
Video Conferencing

Totara Learn Integrations

Google Analytics 360

Kaltura Video Platform

Microsoft Viva Engage

OneDrive

PayPal

Google Docs

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Totara Learn User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

55%

33%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.4

Enrrique P.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Perfect application for corporate training and learning.

Have an application focused on business learning, with tools focused on the corporate area to prepare quality professionals who know the business and its function in the company is optimal.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Totara is one of the most complete learning applications for the business world, noting the great detail that it is free, extremely complete where you can manage face-to-face and non-face-to-face training, evaluate the performance of workers, create reports on the progress of each employee to evaluate their evolution, strengths and devilities and all with a very comfortable interface and all this for a fraction of the cost of a private application, as it is focused on the corporate area its functionalities are focused on the development of complete professionals, to teach them the rules of business and strengthen your company, use it!!!!

Cons:

Being free may not have the service and attention problems of a proprietary software, this is why you need the support of software specialists for problems that may arise, or solve any inconvenience of the stability of the program.

Sahar A.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed April 2021

From Learnforce to Totara and beyond

We have been using Totara Learn for past 2 years (almost). We love it even more because of the exceptional customer support by our vendor Kineo. Since we moved from Learnforce LMS, which had a completely different interface, some ulearners find it difficult but LMS admins love the flexibility now they have to configure even things like custom fields etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The flexibility that an admin has in configuring this software.

Cons:

Inconsistency in different reports. e.g. SCORM reports are filtered differently where as other USer reports are filtered differently.

Reasons for choosing Totara Learn

We chose totara by going through an extensive Tender process. Totara Learn fulfilled most of our functional/non-functional requirements.

Reasons for switching to Totara Learn

- Lack of configurability for Admins in Learnforce - Needed one platform for Face to face and eLearning courses, which learnforce didn't have. - Lack of accessibility for user reports

Vendor Response

Hi Sahar, thanks for the lovely review! Our partner Kineo will be delighted to hear that. I'll pass on your feedback about the user reports. Glad to hear your LMS admins enjoy the flexibility of the platform.

Replied May 2021

Verified

Reviewer

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Our company implemented Totara through a third party reseller. We migrated from Moodle.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is hosted off-site so we don't need to rely on our small Systems team. This is really the true value to me as an LMS administrator as previously it was impossible to upgrade our Moodle versions. Navigating to the courses is very simple. The look and feel is decent. So far it's been pretty stable.

Cons:

I would like to see more features that are not already available in the free Moodle LMS system. I would like to see the Reporting features better implemented. I would also like to see support for plug-ins that are currently supported in free Moodle, particularly H5P.

Steve W.

Verified reviewer

Civic & Social Organization

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2021

Totara works for us

Really happy with the supplier support and the way the software keeps evolving

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The product is easy to implement - it is fairly intuitive for the learner and easy to brand and upkeep as an administrator.

Cons:

The moodle base means you have to be careful about retakes - it only records the first one - so if you need certifications updating then plan ahead

Reasons for choosing Totara Learn

Cost was a factor - cheaper - plus a organisation wish to go moodle based.

Reasons for switching to Totara Learn

Useability and uptake

Vendor Response

Hi Steve, thank you for the amazing review! Glad to hear that it was easy to implement and that you're happy with the support from your Totara Partner. We have lots of stuff coming up on our roadmap so stay tuned :)

Replied April 2021

Rob M.

Verified reviewer

Human Resources

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed April 2021

Great but lacking some aspects.

We love it. Our clients hate it. They find it difficult to navigate and over complex.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Payment gateway for access to courses is a major challenge. The use of HR import and a Wordpress shop make for a clumsy integration.

Cons:

Better certificate issue and management for different instructor groups

Reasons for switching to Totara Learn

Needed a [professionally managed and stable environment. Moodle partner hopeless.

Vendor Response

Rob, thank you for your review of Totara Learn. We're happy to hear that you're enjoying the many adaptable features, functionality and value for money. We're always actively working on improving Totara Learn with every release (and gathering the required research and customer feedback in order to do so), so we really do appreciate your feedback. Speaking of which, we'd kindly suggest ensuring that you're using the latest version of Totara Learn, Totara Learn 13. It features multiple improvements to user experience for your learners and admins. This includes improvements to site accessibility, more streamlined navigation (particularly when viewing learning plans or creating user accounts) and much more.

Replied April 2021

Verified

Reviewer

E-Learning

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Good LMS choice for heavily customized use cases

We are using it as a custom learning platform for our digital leadership development content. We have enjoyed using it to address the various business requirements of our end users and departments. We will continue to use it to address the evolving needs of the organization, because it is such a flexible system.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Totara is open source, so it is highly customizable based on your organization's use case. We are using it for leadership development content, and we have been able to implement custom themes to make the platform our own, and even co-brand content for our clients.

Cons:

Its complexity and extensive functionality available can be a bit overwhelming, causing our users to mistakenly use a particular feature because it is very similar to one we built for custom use cases. It has required a ton of development to implement our processes.

Vendor Response

Thank you! We are happy to hear that Totara Learn is proving to be a versatile and adaptable platform that meets your complex needs.

Replied April 2021

Louise V.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2021

Benefits of Totara Learn

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Possibility to adapt the learning platform based on the needs of the end-user (fully customizable) - Audience management for adaptive learning: programs & certifications, activity/course completion tracking, ... - Design and navigation: responsive themes, dashboards, ... (branding)

Cons:

Recommend courses/programs to colleagues (features is not available) Add more standard features to the course page so that we (as an instructional designer) can create courses that are qualitative for end users. For example, the possibility for end-users to upload video's/podcast/pdfs.

Vendor Response

We're elated to hearing your 10 out of 10 recommendation! Thank you so much, Louise. We are also very big fans of the way Deloitte adapts our LMS to deliver a uniquely bespoke training platform for Deloitte learners. It serves as an inspirational example of adaptive training and adaptability in general! We want to make Totara Learn as good as it possibly can be, so please feel free to add any feature requests in the Totara Community.

Replied April 2021

Verified

Reviewer

Construction

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Totara LMS for small organizations

Very positive - it was a first LMS for our company and the set up and implementation were smooth. Users did not have much difficulty using this (construction workers) and it has been easy to maintain.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked the ability to customize and make the system work for our needs. We were able to work with our vendor to add some functionality to fit our business.

Cons:

From an admin role it helps to be a little techie/geeky. But the support from our vendor really helped get through that.

Daniel T.

Verified reviewer

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

The open LMS with better support

For large companies I have recommended it since they allow to create individual development plans, so each person in charge of the team will be able to see the progress of their employees in charge and adjust the learning objectives needed within the platform.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This LMS has all the characteristics of the well-known moodle plus a set of extra functions for business training, among them the personalization of reports and the planning of individual and group objectives.

Cons:

What did you like least about the software? Some plans can be expensive, but it depends on the provider. By having a subscription you can be calm before the failures or errors that arise, because the support team of the company will help you at any time to solve it.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your kind words Daniel. We really appreciate it!

Replied June 2018

Josefina V.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Excellent tool for education and online training

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I have tried this platform and I think it is very complete, since it allows you to educate other people individually and train both employees and clients, very good

Cons:

Despite being very good, its interface is not competitive with other platforms, they have to develop a better interface because this platform has potential

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